一名男子在認為自己的密碼永遠丟失後找回了價值 300 萬美元的比特幣

這位被稱為「Michael」的匿名男子僱用了一個安全研究團隊，他們能夠解鎖他的比特幣錢包並取回 43.6 比特幣

A European man has recovered nearly $3 million in Bitcoin after thinking his password was lost forever, according to a report from Wired.

根據《連線》報道，一名歐洲男子在認為自己的密碼永遠丟失後，已經找回了近 300 萬美元的比特幣。

The anonymous man, who goes by "Michael," hired a team of security researchers who were able to unlock his Bitcoin wallet and retrieve 43.6 Bitcoin.

這位名叫「Michael」的匿名男子僱用了一個安全研究團隊，他們成功解鎖了他的比特幣錢包並取回了 43.6 個比特幣。

In 2013, Michael created a password using a generator called Roboform that consisted of 20 upper- and lower-case letters and numbers. Due to security concerns, Michael kept the password in an encrypted file instead of storing it with RoboForm.

2013 年，Michael 使用名為 Roboform 的產生器創建了一個由 20 個大小寫字母和數字組成的密碼。出於安全考慮，Michael 將密碼保存在加密檔案中，而不是將其儲存在 RoboForm 中。

When the encrypted file got corrupted, however, Michael lost access to the 20-character password required to access the 43.6 Bitcoin in the wallet.

然而，當加密檔案損壞時，麥可無法存取錢包中 43.6 比特幣所需的 20 個字元的密碼。

Michael lost hope of recovering the password and his Bitcoin, but in 2022, he convinced electrical engineer Joe Grand to try to help. Grand, who goes by the hacker handle ‘Kingpin,’ explained in a video that he and his colleague exploited a long-fixed vulnerability in the RoboForm password generator.

邁克爾失去了找回密碼和比特幣的希望，但在 2022 年，他說服了電氣工程師喬·格蘭德 (Joe Grand) 嘗試提供幫助。 Grand 的駭客帳號為“Kingpin”，他在影片中解釋說，他和同事利用了 RoboForm 密碼產生器中一個長期修復的漏洞。

At the time Michael created his password, the generator associated each code with the specific date and time of its creation on the user’s computer. Grand and his team used this flaw to solve the problem. (Roboform says the issue was resolved in 2015, but it might have impacted passwords created prior to that, Wired reported.)

當邁克爾創建密碼時，生成器將每個代碼與其在用戶電腦上創建的特定日期和時間相關聯。 Grand 和他的團隊利用這個缺陷解決了這個問題。 （根據《連線》報道，Roboform 表示問題已於 2015 年解決，但可能會影響在此之前創建的密碼。）

Michael couldn't tell exactly when he created the password, but the team found out that he moved Bitcoin to his wallet on April 13, 2013. Last November, they adjusted the parameters on the password generator so it would behave as if it was certain dates around that timeframe — until it generated the correct code, which was created on May 15, 2013.

麥可無法準確地說出他何時創建了密碼，但團隊發現他於2013 年4 月13 日將比特幣轉移到了自己的錢包中。好像是確定的一樣該時間範圍內的日期 - 直到產生正確的代碼（該代碼創建於 2013 年 5 月 15 日）。

The price of Bitcoin has skyrocketed since Michael lost the password. In April 2013, Bitcoin was $140 per coin, and now it is hovering around $68,000. He says that had he had access to his wallet, he would have sold the cryptocurrency when it reached $40,000 a coin. “That I lost the password was financially a good thing,” he told Wired.

自從麥可丟失密碼以來，比特幣的價格飆升。 2013 年 4 月，比特幣每枚價格為 140 美元，現在徘徊在 68,000 美元左右。他說，如果他能使用自己的錢包，當加密貨幣達到每枚 4 萬美元時，他就會出售該加密貨幣。 「我丟失了密碼在經濟上是一件好事，」他告訴《連線》雜誌。

Grand and his team received a portion of the Bitcoin as a reward, and Michael sold some of it at $62,000 per coin. He now owns 30 Bitcoin worth $2 million and wants to sell the rest when it reaches $100,000 per coin. Not bad for what once looked like a lost cause.

Grand 和他的團隊收到了一部分比特幣作為獎勵，Michael 以每枚 62,000 美元的價格出售了其中一部分。他現在擁有 30 個比特幣，價值 200 萬美元，並希望在每枚比特幣達到 10 萬美元時出售其餘的。對於曾經看似失敗的事業來說，這還不錯。